Christian Hirwa supervises case managers at Jewish Family & Children's Services of Southern Arizona's refugee resettlement programs.
Christian Hirwa came with his family to Tucson nearly a decade ago — all as Rwanda refugees who fled to the Republic of Kenya in 1997 because of ongoing death threats stemming from the genocide killings in his motherland.
Hirwa, 35, has lived the hell of refugees, and that is the reason he works giving back to those fleeing war-torn countries seeking safety in the United States. For seven years, he worked at Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest as a case manager for its refugee resettlement programs. The Afghanistan evacuees are part of Operation Allies Refuge, a military operation that airlifted certain at-risk Afghan civilians, interpreters, U.S. embassy employees and other prospective Special Immigrant Visa and humanitarian parolee applicants. In an earlier interview, Aaron Rippenkroeger, executive director for International Rescue Committee in Arizona, said roughly 100,000 refugees are out of Afghanistan and most are coming to the United States.
It is difficult for refugees to enter a foreign world and start anew, trying to fit in and learn English, get a job and learn the customs and every day life in America, said Hirwa. He was age 25 when he and his mother and five siblings left Kenya after their case was approved by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The family was interviewed by U.S.
In 2012, Hirwa and his family took a flight from Nairobi, Republic of Kenya to the John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York and then continued to Dallas to Tucson. They were greeted by refugee resettlement workers with Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest. The family began their journey to assimilate into the Tucson community.
The nonprofit agency does need monetary donations for its refugee resettlement programs to help with housing, rents and other necessities.Tags Subscribe to stay connected to Tucson. A subscription helps you access more of the local stories that keep you connected to the community.
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